Hossen Sohel of DOT :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that the Jatiya Oikya Front will decide whether it will join a fresh round of talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina once the agenda has been set, reports bdnews24.com.
Currently, the party’s ‘main agenda’ is the cancellation of the 11th national parliamentary election and a fresh election under the supervision of a neutral government, he said.
The BNP leader made the statement after a visit to the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal in Sylhet yesterday afternoon.
Jatiya Oikya Front leaders are in Sylhet to pay their respects to the family of a Chhatra Dal leader killed in violence on election day.
Mirza Fakhrul, JSD’s ASM Abdur Rab, Krishak Sramik Janata League’s Kader Siddique and Gono Forum’s Mostofa Mohsin Montu and Subrata Chowdhury arrived at Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport at 11:30 am. They then visited the shrine.
Reporters asked Fakhrul about the prime minister’s plans to hold talks afterwards.
“The prime minister has called for talks,” Fakhrul said. “But if they go the way they did before it will be meaningless.”
“We do not yet know the agenda of the talks. We have only one agenda – the cancellation of the election. Once we learn the agenda, the Oikya Front will discuss the matter.”
The Awami League has formed a third consecutive government after a landslide victory in the Dec 30 polls. The Oikya Front, which won only eight seats, has announced that they are boycotting the polls and have called for a fresh election to be held as soon as possible. Kamal Hossain, on behalf of the alliance, has also announced a ‘national dialogue’ on the matter.
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